Corset.



No. 668,433; Patented Fab. l9, l9*0l. J. C. ANDREWS.

CORSET.

[Application filed Aug. 20, 1900.)

(No Mm iel.)

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JAMES C. ANDREWS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BAYSTATE CORSET 00., OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,433, dated February19, 1901.

Application filed August 20, 1900. Serial No. 27 ,380. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES C. ANDREWS, of Springfield, in the county ofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Improvement inCorsets; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and

m which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side view of one-half of a corset, illustrating myinvention; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional view thereof.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, and particularly tothat class in which the side or hip sections are reinforced orstrengthened by overlying supplemental sections, so as to provide doublebones or steels over the hips at the waistline.

The object of the invention is to so form the reinforces that they mayhave a sliding motion on the main portion of the corset, yet addsufficient strength to prevent breaking at the waist-line; and itconsists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularlyrecited in the claim.

The general construction of the corset is immaterial, but preferably,and as shown in the drawings, the side or hip section will be formed intwo parts, A B, each of which is stifliened by a steel C, extendingthroughout the length of the corset. Superimposed upon each of theseparts A B is a supplemental strip A B, each corresponding in width tothe main sections A B and preferably extending from the lower edge ofthe corset upward to a point above the waist-line, and in each strip A Bis a steel C, so disposed as to stand exactly over the steels C in thesections A B.

The adjacent edges of the several sections are seamed together, and overthe central seam a stay D is secured, this stay extending from the topto the bottom of the corset. If the supplemental strips extend to thelower edge of the corset, they will be secured thereto by the usualbinder E; but the upper ends of the strips, between their side edges,are separate from the corset, so that more or less independent movementis permitted. Prefer- 5o ably the upper ends of the strips A B will berounded, as shown in Fig. 1, which gives a neat appearance to thecorset.

I am aware that corsets have been provided at the sides withsupplemental sections or reinforces, and do not therefore claim,broadly, such as my invention; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A corset having a side section with steels extending throughout itslength on opposite sides of a central line, and a supplemental sectionsecured by its side edges over the side section, united at its loweredge with the lower edge of the corset by a binder, and extending fromthe lower edge of the corset upward to a point above the waist-line,steels in said supplemental section disposed to lie over the steels inthe side section, and a stay extending from top to bottom of the corsetoutside of the supplemental section between the steels thereof, andsecured to the corset and supplemental section throughout its length,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscrib- Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. Trrus, J OSEPH A. ORDWAY.

